Courting Adelson and Netanyahu and reviving ‘new American century,’ Rubio positions himself as neocon favorite

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has emerged as the last best hope of the neoconservative restoration. In recent days, Rubio has been courting Sheldon Adelson, who wants to nuke Iran, while Rubio’s outside spending group, which tried to kill the Iran deal by promoting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, has undertaken a big ad buy in Iowa. Rubio appears to be favored by neocon kingmaker Bill Kristol, who has defended the Florida senator from attacks, elevated him as “shrewd”–and meantime has trolled Jeb Bush (who made the mistake of naming James Baker as a foreign policy adviser).